07-05-2006, 08:20 AM
Interview with an identity thief:
full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/us/04i...1309665600&en=0c5e1099b9e02825&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Quote:By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career. After a certain point, investigators stopped counting...
But Mr. Sharma, now 22, says he never really kept track of his earnings...
"It's an addiction, no doubt about that," said Mr. Sharma, who inflected his words with the sort of street cadence adopted by smart kids trying to be cool. "I get scared that when I get out, I might have a problem and relapse because it would be so easy to take $300 and turn it into several thousand."
full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/us/04i...1309665600&en=0c5e1099b9e02825&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss